Where does Valio Ltd rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Valio Ltd ranks #12,298 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Valio Ltd hold?

Valio Ltd holds 25 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Valio Ltd's Innovation Score?

Valio Ltd has an Innovation Score of 39.3 out of 100 (top 38% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Valio Ltd focus on?

Valio Ltd's top technology area is A23C (Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof) with 23 patents, ranking #9 of 208 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

Is Valio Ltd's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Valio Ltd's recent grant velocity is +143% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Valio Ltd's patents?

Valio Ltd's patents average 17.4 claims each. This is an aggregate descriptive count from the grant record; it does not establish claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk.

How is the Valio Ltd patent data sourced?

All patent data comes from USPTO PatentsView, a public research dataset maintained by the United States Patent and Trademark Office covering US granted utility patents from 2015 to 2025.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Valio Ltd

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 25 granted patents across 11 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. Grant-trend analysis is cross-referenced to USPTO Patent Public Search; it does not measure application filings, current R&D, or legal strength. Primary class: A23C (Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Valio ranks #12,298 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 25 patents across 11 technology areas.

#12,298
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 38%
by Innovation Score (39.3/100): 17.4
avg claims per patent: +143%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R12298 · Foreign Corporation #12,298 · 25 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 25 grants
UPPER-Q #12,298/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ventec Life Systems
CPC-FOCUS A23C · 11 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +143% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ventec Life Systems, Inc. (±0 grants)

Instrument codes from this assignee’s USPTO PatentsView grant sheet: volume band, corpus rank, photo-finish peer, lead CPC, Innovation Score, claim depth, assignee type, velocity, and book completeness. Not a USPTO rating of patent strength.

How Valio’s 39.3 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Volume 11.3 pts (29%) Velocity 5.9 pts (15%) Breadth 11.7 pts (30%) Claim depth 10.4 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
EchoNous · near

39
Teledyne Lecroy · near

39
TPC Group · near

39
Valio · this assignee

39
Zettaset · near

39
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Valio's Innovation Score is 39.3/100 (top 38% of the PatentsView-derived corpus). The chart places that score against the nearest Innovation Score peers plus corpus poles, not a reprint of the volume ranking.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Valio?

Each dot is one of Valio’s 8 nearest volume peers (same corpus rank neighbourhood as the chart above), placed by total granted patents (horizontal) against average claims per patent (vertical). Valio’s own 17.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

Valio vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Valio's grants concentrate

Valio Ltd is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 92% of grants classified under A23C (Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Valio sits between Ventec Life Systems, Inc. and Virtual Incision Corporation.

Valio's three-year grant acceleration

Valio Ltd shows 8 grants in 2022–2024 against only 9 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Ventec Life Syste…

25
Verisilicon Micro…

25
Victrex Manufactu…

25
Vudu

25
Verity

25
Vetter Pharma-fer…

25
Virsec Systems

25
Virtual Incision

25
Valio ◀

25

What this shows Valio holds 25 patents at rank #12,299, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Valio

By rank, the assignees closest to #12,299 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A23C (Dairy Products)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Valio's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Valio, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A23C (Dairy Products), Valio ranks #9 of 208 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (39 here).

Zettaset, Inc. 39 EchoNous, Inc. 39 TPC Group, LLC 39 Teledyne Lecroy, Inc. 39

Valio's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

Composite of portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth (0–100)

39 Top 38% higher than 62% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Valio Ltd patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	8.0%
2018	5	20.0%
2020	1	4.0%
2021	8	32.0%
2022	5	20.0%
2023	2	8.0%
2024	1	4.0%
2025partial year	1	4.0%

Which technologies does Valio Ltd patent most?

A23C - Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof 23

A23J - Protein Compositions FOR FOODSTUFFS; Working-up Proteins FOR FOODSTUFFS; Phosphatide Compositions FOR Foodstuffs 10

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 9

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 4

C12Y - Enzymes 4

A23B - Preservation OF Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic BEVERAGES; Chemical Ripening OF Fruit OR Vegetables 3

A23P - Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs, NOT Fully Covered BY A Single Other Subclass 1

C07K - Peptides 1

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 1

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 1

A23K - Fodder 1

Top 11 of 11 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Valio Ltd's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Valio Ltd's lead technology class is A23C (Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof), 92% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A23C
Ranked #12,298 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Valio Ltd against Ventec Life Systems, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 39.3/100 blends volume, velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth. How it's calculated

Figures reflect USPTO PatentsView grant data through May 2026; pending applications not yet granted are not counted.

Data sourced from USPTO PatentsView - official U.S. government patent data. See our methodology for computation details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainPatent

Disclaimer: This information is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute professional advice. Data is sourced from the USPTO PatentsView database. Consult a qualified professional before making decisions based on this data.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sources used on this page

USPTO PatentsView - the disambiguated bulk patent-grant, assignee, and CPC data this page's figures are derived from. patentsview.org
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) - the joint USPTO/EPO classification scheme used to group patents by technology area. cooperativepatentclassification.org
USPTO Patent Public Search - the official interface to verify the status of any individual patent. ppubs.uspto.gov

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.